r/photoshopbattles • u/PhotoShopBattles • Aug 04 '14
Weekly Battle | Closed Battle #124 "Laundry Hanging Over Colourful Side Street" via last weeks winner, FullNoodleFrontity
Previous Winner
This week's image was chosen by /u/FullNoodleFrontity, the first place winner in Battle 123:
Stock image: Beach Explorers
Winning entry: But when we look under the surface we see things are not as they seem.
The stock image for Battle #124 is... Laundry Hanging Over Colourful Side Street
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u/hiro24 Aug 05 '14
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u/madjo Aug 06 '14
One of the reflections of the window of the building in the back is on top of the bridge, but other than that. amazing work.
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u/CptSasquatch Aug 04 '14
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u/Suckassloser Aug 06 '14
Any constructive criticism on this one would be greatly appreciated!
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u/YouFeelShame Aug 06 '14
So well done. I love opening all the images with RES and finding the ones that jump out and punch your eyes.
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u/xjupiterx Aug 06 '14
You did wonderful on this! Next time link to the direct image file though, please? Its fabulous though, great job.
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u/Rundal Aug 06 '14
I would like to know how did you created the water effect on the ground if possible please
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u/Suckassloser Aug 06 '14
I'll describe as best I can; I won't go into specific parameters I used since that'll be down to the image you're editing and personal preference. It should be noted though I found online tutorials immensely helpful for this shop!
Firstly I created a new group in which to contain the layers involved with the wet ground look. I then made sure within this group the layer would only effect the ground; so I made a selection of the ground from the base layer; created a layer mask from this (so any grounf was white, everything else black) and linked that mask with the new group.
Now to obtain a damp look, I duplicated my base layer and moved it into this new group. Then I ran the bas relief filter (in the filter gallery) with high detail and low smoothness. Light source from the top. Then I changed the layer's blending mode to vivid light (although other blending mode looked convincing as well), and altered the opacity until it looked nice enough.
Then I need the reflections o the buildings and sky; which were on seperate layers. The sky was easy enough; I duplicated it, put that in the group; gave it normal blending and low opacity. It a subtle effect really. The building were a bit more awkward; I did the left buildings, middle one and right ones separately. Basically, I obtained cutouts of the buildings, moved those duplicates into the group, flipped then vertically; and then transformed them accordingly over the ground area (e.g. using distort, skew so the reflections (very!) approximately matched the perspective of the actual buildings. I toyed with numerous blending modes for the reflection but settled with soft light at low opacity. I then applied slight gaussian blur and motion blur to made the reflections a little less distinguishable and thus more realistic.
I also added rain drop ripples (look closely as the ground) just to jazz things up a little. That was done by simply creating a black layer; painting white with the 'Stencil Sponge - Twirl' brush tip shape (in faux finish brushes) with high scatter and size randomness. Then using the distort tool I transformed the layer to follow along the ground, and changed the blending to screen and edited the opacity til it looked good (simular to how I did the rain itself).... Also I added very subtle 'puddles' with a similar method and but with overlay blending.
And that's pretty much all for the ground. Other manipulations involved making mist, changing the sky (durh!) and altering the saturation (desaturate everything, but particular blues and greens), curves (lightening darker blacks and darkening a lot of the whites) and other adjustments. Those pretty were important for making the scene as a whole look rainy. And of course, the rain itself!
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u/derpko Aug 05 '14
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u/welcome_to_burrito Aug 08 '14
No offense, I think this i great and creative entry, but shouldn't the clothes be hanging towards the ground? They appear to be stiff and pointing outwards not in the direction of gravity. But thats just, like my opinion man. It looks great!
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u/derpko Aug 09 '14
Yeah I was thinking that too. This was my first time reconstructing so much of the background, my edit without the birds/clothesline, so I guess more of my focus went to that. Thanks for the input.
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u/totalitarian_jesus Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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u/SuperNova_0 Aug 06 '14 edited Aug 07 '14
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u/Napthali Aug 07 '14
I love what you did here. I think the sky takes too much away from the brilliant work you did with the ground but other than that, wonderful looking piece! Good work!
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u/SuperNova_0 Aug 07 '14
Thanks....i tried a bunch of them before finalizing this one. Too many clouds make it overcrowded and no clouds makes it look fake....so i used this one as there r no clouds in the center so that the cliffs r distinguishable and the clouds gradually increase towards the top filling up the empty space between the buildings.
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u/lains-experiment Aug 06 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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u/milvus Aug 05 '14
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u/TheHungryMetroid Aug 04 '14 edited Aug 04 '14
This is my first post to this sub, I will update it after lunch if I can find some more details to add.
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u/Rich_Panhandler Aug 05 '14
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u/JoshuaHaunted Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 05 '14
New Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Map!!
*I've used the names of the 1st and 2nd place winners of the past two battles. If you don't want your username on this image, just ask. I still have the workfile and can change it upon request.
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u/STR4NGE Aug 08 '14
I was like WTF Ohhhhh... it's My XBLive name too so I was very confused... Wait where am i?
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u/SuperNova_0 Aug 04 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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Aug 06 '14
They need to be naked though
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u/fatdonuthole Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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u/thetebe Aug 07 '14
This removal is fantastic. I don't like how Harry seems to be too big for the setting, but the cloak-reference is fucking great.
I think most people overlook how bad ass this one is because you made it look so damn easy.
I bow to you.
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u/apdea Aug 06 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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u/xjupiterx Aug 04 '14
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u/whatthemeh Aug 06 '14
Haha, I was thinking of doing that, didn't get time to though. Good to see it done :D
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u/xjupiterx Aug 06 '14 edited Aug 07 '14
Thanks! It was my first idea for some reason, so I went with it.
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u/themackerman Aug 05 '14
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u/Napthali Aug 07 '14
I like it very much as well! Great use of colors; or I guess lack there of! Great piece!
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u/YouFeelShame Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 06 '14
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u/TheLastImmortal Aug 06 '14
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u/michaelarney Aug 07 '14
Hey! ...Great minds think alike! Nicely done.
BTW: I think your's is probably the better of our two. ;)
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u/xjupiterx Aug 06 '14
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u/xjupiterx Aug 06 '14
This is the first time I've actually tried to replace a whole background haha so it's not great but if someone wants the empty background template: http://i.imgur.com/qUSKHWt.png It took me longer than I will admit.
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Aug 07 '14
I'm very late to the game..
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u/Im_Not_A_Prostitute Aug 08 '14
I don't think this is getting enough recognition. Really great job.
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u/thetebe Aug 13 '14
I wish this was posted earlier, so many people will miss it and it so well made.
Only thing I would boost is the light on the walls that the flames would light up.
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u/Napthali Aug 05 '14
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u/michaelarney Aug 07 '14
Ah yes... I've heard of this... the running of the tiny people!
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u/Napthali Aug 07 '14
I took more of the packing people in approach than the proportionate approach :) Good call though!
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u/michaelarney Aug 07 '14 edited Aug 07 '14
HA! I'm just messing with you because we had the same idea (great minds... and all)! It's a good shop... Arguably much better than mine! :)
EDIT: I mean, seriously... you did a ton of intricate masking!!
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u/Napthali Aug 05 '14
Admittedly I got lazy with the shadowing as I had to get back to work so don't judge too harshly! Lighting could have been way better :)
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u/marklross Aug 06 '14
I thought and thought and thought - came up with nothin'...
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u/marklross Aug 06 '14
And since I couldn't think of anything, I just threw in Godzilla for good measure...
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Aug 04 '14
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u/thetebe Aug 06 '14
So you've also seen "Shark in Venice" I see.
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Aug 06 '14
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u/thetebe Aug 07 '14
You should probably not get your hopes up too high.
Also, nice touch with the rope hanging toddler with this one.
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Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 05 '14
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u/Spicy_Brown_Mustard Aug 04 '14
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Aug 07 '14
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this a reference to Saving Private Ryan? I just saw that movie for the first time 2 days ago.
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u/Spicy_Brown_Mustard Aug 07 '14
You are correct. It's the last scene where they're defending the bridge.
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u/SmileysFreedom Aug 05 '14
My first try :)